Raheem Morris and Mike Macdonald were hired by their respective franchises within a week of each other in the head coaching cycle in January 2024.

Since then, the Falcons and Seattle Seahawks have taken vastly different paths to Sunday's meeting in Atlanta.

Morris' Falcons (4-8) have dropped six of their past seven games and are closing in on their eighth straight season of missing the playoffs. Atlanta is 6-14 in its past 20 games, quarterback Michael Penix Jr. is out for the season with a partially torn ACL and the team is coming off a 27-24 loss to the lowly New York Jets.

The road only gets tougher for the Falcons, who face the NFL's second-best run defense (88.8 yards allowed per game) and third-best scoring defense (18.1 points per game) in Seattle.

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